I like the part where the judge thinks this is a victory for justice against the horrible specter of false accusations.

Literally the actual fucking judgment wrote:However, the twists and turns of the complainants' evidence in this trial illustrate the need to be vigilant in avoiding the equally dangerous false assumption that sexual assault complainants are always truthful.

friendly reminder to always be a perfect victim or everyone will tear the shit out of you uwu

のほも is such a good word?? the concept is kind of hard to fully get across in translation, but basically it means a feeling of pure, deep, platonic affection, and i think thats beautiful

I mean, I still think he's a gigantic asshole and that he took the position out of the most naked sort of opportunism in the first place. But his resignation really genuinely appears to be for his family's sake as he claims, rather than the usual case among politicians where that's typically just a bullshit line to cover an exit made for other reasons, like electoral failure, and if so, good for him.

Yeah, from what little I've followed of the whole thing (I really don't have a horse in this party's race anymore and I'm too ill to waste time paying attention to the news nowadays), the job wreaked the worst sort of havoc on his personal life and quitting seems like an entirely sane and respectable decision to make. Besides, regardless of whatever vim he may have had in the Assemblée Nationale, it's not like anyone is in any real position to stop Couillard from taking a huge dump on everything, so it can hardly be called dereliction of duty.

I was mostly paying attention to it, because I had no idea what his endgame was... was he an actual late-to-the-party separatist convert, or (as was more probable) a naked grab at power for it's own sake (but the latter would still have been interesting because I wanted to see what kind of crazy three-step he'd pull if he actually managed to get himself elected). I figured it would be a spectacle no matter what. This outcome came outta nowhere, but is no less interesting and perhaps a little more positive than I'd ever expected.

So is the CAQ still crap? Who's the effective opposition going to be now?

Man, I dunno. The CAQ is the new ADQ, except Legault is not nearly as charismatic as Dumont was (not that Dumont was super charismatic in the first place, though he's improved markedly since he left politics); the vibe coming off of them is that they're ineffective/pointless right-wing grumblers.

Folk do seem to typically like Québec Solidaire, probably since Québécois in general lean left (with regional exceptions), but they're in that weird place where people would rather vote anti-PLQ than pro-QS, so they go with the PQ instead because they technically have a better shot.

So yeah, the opposition's anemic right now and it looks like it'll remain so at least in the short-term, while the PLQ keeps on coasting on sheer inertia and indifference. Huzzah.